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by pavlov 2y ago
I did Seattle-Chicago about ten years ago. 48 hours expected duration, and it arrived several hours late. As a European used to efficient train travel, it was kind of surreal that not only was the passenger train very slow (maybe 1/3 o
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by pavlov 2y ago
If they are video frames, you also need to know the chroma subsampling ratio and separate stride values for luma and chroma. (Some systems also allow for separate base offsets for the chroma planes, but that’s not useful in practice. It’s s
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by pavlov 2y ago
That is what banks do. But it’s more complicated because the current trading value of a bond is not the same as the expected return you’d get if you hold it to maturity. Last year Silicon Valley Bank and others got into trouble for this rea
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by pavlov 2y ago
I have a company in Finland whose legal name contains the + character. It’s always a modest thrill to interact with new computer systems and see if and how they break. Some web forms just can’t be submitted because my company’s legal name h
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by pavlov 2y ago
For smaller integers, SIMD bit permute instructions can be used to do this kind of thing rapidly and with arbitrary reordering of the bits.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yes, the mini-MIDI port on a 1991 laptop is truly unique. But probably there wouldn't have been much of a market for that. Computer-driven live music performance was still very exotic. Laptop jockeys were a decade away.
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by pavlov 2y ago
You forget: 1 person complaining about the amount of JavaScript loaded just to display this one article
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by pavlov 2y ago
Ironically, protectionism is now the hallmark policy of Trumpists who pretend to be anti-communists.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I’ve been writing C and its progeny (C++, JavaScript, Rust etc.) since 1990 on a Finnish keyboard. The AltGr brackets are fine. The truly annoying character to type is the backtick (which is a quite new addition to the pantheon of special c
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by pavlov 2y ago
There’s so many assumptions here about a person who’s starting to learn programming. For starters, that they’re on Linux, they feel comfortable running complex CLI commands, they can memorize the U.S. layout just like that, and that they ca
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by pavlov 2y ago
How did you think people outside the US learn programming?
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by pavlov 2y ago
Just call it wyl/lyw. Pronunciation maintained, problem solved.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Also because the special characters were (and are) difficult to type on European keyboards. Characters like []{}\|~ are behind multi-finger access and often not printed at all on the physical keys (at least in the past). You can see how thi
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by pavlov 2y ago
Name produces flashbacks to browsing Usenet on Windows 95.
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by pavlov 2y ago
The CEO of the Ray-Ban brand owner says otherwise: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/n... Granted, it’s relative: “… the new generation of smart glasses have sold more in a few months than
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by pavlov 2y ago
Dollar bills are secretly weighted in metric units? Evidence of the Illuminati world government, surely.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Is Wordpress dying? This kind of infighting is usually a sign of a shrinking market and stagnating product. In haven’t used Wordpress in probably fifteen years. Back then its main quality was ease of setup on prevailing hosting environments
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by pavlov 2y ago
Replace it with “ph” in every word, and you’ll have the phine benephit of sounding like a 90s indie band or a 70s phone hacker.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Commercial fusion power will beat both to market. I should know, I owned both a Windows ARM PC and a Tesla with “FSD”.
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by pavlov 2y ago
The pro-Trump tech folks are 90% about crypto. It's single-issue politics, like abortion or gun rights. Scratch the surface on a SV Trump supporter like Marc Andreessen, and you'll find a big bag of crypto that they want to keep d
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by pavlov 2y ago
Maybe “number” is too ambiguous because they’d have to define that “in this context a number means a float or integer type only.” The C++ standard also includes support for complex numbers.
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by pavlov 2y ago
If you were buying Coke at a store owned by Pepsi, it almost seems inevitable. I’m not saying it’s right, but it’s just the kind of thing that one expects from American corporations.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Software developers being surprised that software companies need to do a lot more than just write code is kind of like sailors being surprised that global logistics involves a lot more than handling a ship.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Professionals are often blinded by the conventional taste that they worked so hard to develop. The first editor of “Midnight Cowboy” resigned because he felt the naturalistic footage looked terrible and couldn’t be used for a proper movie.
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by pavlov 2y ago
The edited title on HN is incomprehensible. The original is: ”1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies” A better edit might be something like: “The $50k bug where Zendesk
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by pavlov 2y ago
I liked “Megalopolis” a lot, but admittedly I have a high tolerance for cult movies. (Well-engineered by-the-book storytelling feels increasingly boring. It’s a much greater pleasure to be constantly surprised and occasionally frustrated by
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by pavlov 2y ago
Also Musk has banned mentions of his own transgender daughter, who now posts on Meta’s Threads app instead. X is like a textbook case of why total autocracy isn’t actually good management practice. Musk has become the Henry VIII of social m
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by pavlov 2y ago
For sure. It wasn’t my usual type of purchase, but more emotionally driven. My dad, who is in his seventies and an early-adopter type, was really into Musk and FSD. I thought it would improve their quality of life to have access to this car
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by pavlov 2y ago
Maybe in the US. It still does nothing in Europe, which is disappointing because the company happily took my money in February 2019 on the promise that this feature is imminent. I paid 7,500 euros for something that still doesn’t exist in a
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by pavlov 2y ago
Urbit is to Uxn as Scientology is to science.

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